"Whatever doubts there may be about the guilt of other accused in other Trials, it is unthinkable that Stalin [...] and the Court-Martial could have sentenced their friends to death unless the proofs of guilt were overwhelming." --Duranty, NY Times Soviet correspondent, 1941
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The Romanov family could not be reached for comment.
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Exactly. Nor the victims of numerous purges.
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Well that’s good news.
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Lazar who? Give that man a Pulitzer!
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But that's when the news was good, don't cha know, my boy?
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They still do though they don’t name themselves Bolsheviks any longer
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He was one of the mid-20th century's great humorists.
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Very, very dark humorists.
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We will liquidate the kulak, but not because he is a kulak but because he is a fifth columnist … The present struggle is national liberation in form, but class war in essence. - Tito -a 'moderate' bolshevik
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